Sailors Filing Sexual Assault Reports to Get More Options Under New Changes The new rules are the latest of a series of changes that appear aimed at making it easier for victims to come forward.
Justice Delayed or Denied: The National Guard Struggles with Handling Accusations of Sexual Assault and Harassment Laws that don't follow federal doctrine, duty status and multiple jurisdictions allow units to mishandle or ignore reports.
Service Academies Report Highest Number of Sexual Assaults Ever More than 130 cadets and midshipmen reported a sexual assault last year, a 7.4% increase from the last time they had a full...
National Guard Leadership Grilled by Lawmakers over Sexual Assault Prosecutions Reports of sexual assault in the Guard have skyrocketed over the past decade, with 188 alleged incidents on state duty in...
Army Officer's Sex Assault Trial Paused over Unanimous Verdict Order by Judge Despite the legal wrangling, the unusual order is unlikely to herald a broader change in the military justice system and its...
House Approves Defense Bill with Pared-Down Reforms The House voted 363-70 on Tuesday night to approve the $768 billion National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA.
Narrower Military Justice Reform Among Changes that Survive Defense Bill Compromise A major overhaul of the military justice system has been scuttled from a defense policy bill in favor of narrower approach...
Lawmakers Are Worried a Major Military Justice Overhaul Is Going to Get Stopped At issue is a provision in the Senate version of the NDAA that would take the decision to prosecute most major crimes away...
Military Failing to Provide Required Help for Victims of Sexual Assault and Abuse, Watchdog Finds The Air Force in particular did not assign prosecutors specially trained to handle those crimes in 94% of sample cases from...
Military's Work on Sexual Assault Might Help with Fighting Extremists, Report Suggests As the military tackles the problem of extremism in its ranks, one team of researchers suggests thinking about the problem in...
Guardsmen Patrolling DC Will Soon Be Armed, Pentagon Says Guardsmen have mostly been patrolling tourist areas not known for high crime rates, such as the National Mall and a transit...
Air Force Top Enlisted Leader Says Service Oath Isn't Made to 'Any Individual' Amid General's Retirement Chief Master Sgt. David Flosi's message to the force seemingly sought to calm the rank and file as the Pentagon goes through...
Veterans Stole over $150K from Air Force Base’s Sports Program in Florida, Feds Say Keith Pilawski, 63, and Edwin Ortiz, 58, defrauded the sports program from 2009 until 2024, the U.S. Attorney's Office for...
Why Is the Army Chopping Away at Its Chopper Fleet? The cuts are part of a larger reorganization as the Army prepares for the changing landscape of warfare with one of the...
Hegseth Fires General Whose Agency's Intel Assessment of Damage from Iran Strikes Angered Trump Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse will no longer serve as head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, according to the people, who...